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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"poiesis"”.
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Poiesis
This thesis examines mark-making techniques in my art and surveys the literary and musical works that inspired it. An historical examination of the role of mark-making in art will be undertaken, beginning with Paleolithic cave art, continuing with Native American petroglyphs and pictographs, and …
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Poiesis and Obstruction in Art Practice
This PhD thesis examines the concept of poiesis, that is ‘calling into existence that which was not there before’, in the context of obstruction in studio practice. It poses the question ‘Is there a methodology that engages with obstruction which in turn calls new work’? In this thesis, the concept …
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Ousia and the Poiesis of Character Findings from an Interaction
Allowing the interaction of two dynamic forces that vie for dominance to be a form, a new character emerges. The character of the new form is present in the qualities of its making.
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An Inert State: Tracing a double-defiance of death via photographic poiesis
… a practical and sensory method of working called poiesis was developed. This operated via a reflective and tacit methodology as a form of sense-making in its photographic explorations of nineteenth-century taxidermy collections and forms of display. The methodology provided a flexible structure …
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Black Feminist Poiesis: Locating “The Uses of the Erotic” Within Black Domesticity
… as knowledge and how we read. Black Feminist Poiesis teaches us that being human is rooted in our capacity to feel, and by studying the excess labor Black domestic women did in service of their beloveds—we find a wellspring of texts, waiting to be read, waiting to teach us how to live …
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The poiesis of 'human nature' : an exploration of the concept of an ethical self
This thesis inquires into our ‘human nature’ through an interdisciplinary approach that considers some of the radical changes in intellectual thought at those key points in Western culture in which this concept has been centrally deployed. The broad historical sweep that this study covers finds the …
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THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: POIESIS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE MULTILINGUAL SUBJECT
<p>This study explores relationships between second language acquisition (SLA), poetic language, and embodied cognition and its connection to second language speakers’ linguistic self-formation, or their distinct ways of speaking and thinking. In particular, this study examines processes by which …
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
… verbal arts, picturing these in the terms of poiesis – an ancient model for philosophy as ‘sense making’ or ‘world making’. This metaphorical utility of the artes mechanicae can be discerned in Hugh’s discussion, running underneath his more literal concern with the mechanical arts as everyday …
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Los paisajes de Antonio Machado entre poiesis y scientia. Hacia una taxonomía de los símbolos botánicos
Surgida con el propósito de elaborar una exhaustiva taxonomía del imaginario botánico de Antonio Machado, para estudiar la simbología, evolución y contextualización de todas y cada una de las especies vegetales de su poesía, esta investigación “liricobotánica” conjuga una disciplina científica …
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Tradition and Discipline: The Evolution of the Caring Teacher Subjectivity in the Poiesis of the Saskatchewan Educational System
This thesis began as an exploration in to the nature of teacher subjectivity and the ‘truths’ that make up our individual reality. It is the interplay of knowledge/power in the social that generates the discourses that shape the nature of the subjectivities we chose to perform as teachers. These …
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Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural-Psychological Analysis of Tobacco Use
… the possibility of a different framework, one of poiesis. The movement towards the cultivation of poiesis, through psychological reflection, is discussed.
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'Seeing' play through the virtual looking glass: A metaphysical laboratory for de-framing and re-framing play for ECE
… phenomenological notions of Enframing and poiesis, I enter into a metaphysical laboratory in the virtual space, accessed through virtual reality (VR). This space offered insights into players’ subjective experiences when engaged in play. Play could thus be examined through empirical …
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Voltaire Fraga: fotografias escolhidas, memórias reveladas. Uma poética do desesquecimento
… unfolding of these observations, it emerges the poiesis of ―un-forgetfulness‖, which aside from being the driving force of this work, it is also the application of those curative processes. The process of unveiling of the photographer and of his images/memories is ratified at the end through the …
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The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
… poetic voices. These arguments include defending poiesis as the ennobling essence of poetry; attacking ornament as a property of mere verse; and yoking popular poetry to the vice of over-ornamentation. By drawing together their growing frustration with the prose defense, their internalization of …
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Everyday aesthetic existence and discipleship: exploring the connections between aesthetics, faith and ethics in being human and becoming Christian
… frames ethical life by conjoining praxis and poiesis through incarnational living. Aesthetics is not to be disconnected from action, as Nicholas Wolterstorff elucidates, but is best understood in light of social practice, playing a narratival role toward specific teloi, however implicit this …
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Verse and Reversal: The Poetic Return to the Inner Child as Black Revolutionary Praxis
… tenets for themselves. This thesis is about the poiesis of the revolutionary—the making and re-making of the revolutionary—and in it I argue that the very process of forming revolutionary identity is poetic. I coin the phrase poetic revolutionary to capture that process, which involves tapping …
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If These Hills Could Speak
… intended, this community embodies a praxis and poiesis of adaptive creativity within the built environment. This process represents a transformative act of pidginization—a collective tactic for repair, resistance, and reappropriation in response to an ongoing, imposed socio-political order. For …
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Ruinscapes in poetry and architecture
… documented at the end. Theoretical research and poiesis -- as "making" -- form here a corpus of interconnected dispositions, anticipations, recollections.
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Viatopias: Exploring the experience of urban travel space
… digital media; and Convergent Languages, Digital Poiesis investigating the dislocation of representation in different digital languages. These conceptual frameworks developed in symbiosis with the practice. The visual practice presents a collection of digital videos that extend and complicate …
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